billingsgate
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Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate.
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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.
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That was Firebrand Danny Cohn-Bendit, leveling a barrage of billingsgate at Herbert Marcuse, the aging Pied Piper of the New Left, who appeared at Rome's Eliseo Theater to give a lecture, "Beyond the One-Dimensional Man."
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On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.
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Douglas waxed furious and poured out his "senatorial billingsgate" upon the offenders.
From Life of Stephen A. Douglas by Gardner, William